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1st edition/1st printing. Fine book is clean, straight & tight, bound in light gray with blue spine. The near fine dust jacket is clean, bright & crisp; unclipped & price intact. It has a tiny bit of shelving wear at the spine edges. 'Here, from the famed author of the Majipoor Trilogy, is his long-awaited major work of science-fiction and fantasy that brings him into the mainstream of the great practitioners of imaginative literature.' The setting of the book is in A.D. 2103. Tom O'Bedlam feigns madness as a sane means of survival in a high-tech, post-industrial world. ; 9 1/2" x 6 1/2"; 320 pages